Acraea encedana

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Acraea encedana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. encedana
Binomial name
Acraea encedana
Pierre, 1976 [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Actinote) encedana
  • Acraea encedon ab. alcippina Aurivillius, 1899
  • Acraea encedon ab. radiata Aurivillius, 1905
  • Acraea encedon f. dairalcippa Le Doux, 1923
  • Acraea encedon f. micropunctata Le Doux, 1931
  • Acraea encedon f. macropunctata Le Doux, 1931
  • Acraea encedon ab. radiofasciata Stoneham, 1943
  • Acraea encedana morph dairana Pierre, 1976

Acraea encedana, the encedana acraea or Pierre's acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique. [3] The habitat consists of open areas near swampy ground.

Contents

Adults feed on the flowers of Tridax species.

The larvae feed on Desmodium salicifolium .

Mimicry

A. encendana is a Müllerian mimic of another butterfly which occurs in Uganda, Danaus chrysippus. [4]

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea encedon species group.but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]

Related Research Articles

<i>Acraea</i> (butterfly) Genus of brush-footed butterflies

Acraea is a genus of brush-footed butterflies of the subfamily Heliconiinae. It seems to be highly paraphyletic and has long been used as a "wastebin taxon" to unite about 220 species of anatomically conservative Acraeini. Some phylogenetic studies show that the genus Acraea is monophyletic if Bematistes and Neotropical Actinote are included. Most species assembled here are restricted to the Afrotropical realm, but some are found in India, Southeast Asia, and Australia.

<i>Acraea encedon</i> Species of butterfly

Acraea encedon, the common acraea, white-barred acraea or encedon acraea, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in sub-Saharan Africa and south-western Arabia. It is one of the species of Acraea sometimes separated in Telchinia.

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<i>Acraea ranavalona</i> Species of butterfly

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<i>Acraea pudorina</i> Species of butterfly

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<i>Acraea utengulensis</i> Species of butterfly

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<i>Acraea circeis</i> Species of butterfly

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<i>Acraea necoda</i> Species of butterfly

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Acraea polis, the western musanga acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and western Cameroon.

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References

  1. ↑ Pierre, J. 1976. Un nouveau cas d’espèces jumelles chez un papillon mimétique, Acraea encedon (L.) (Lépidoptère Acraeidae). Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de l’Academie des Sciences, Paris (Sér. D) 282 (8): 731-734.
  2. ↑ "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. ↑ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
  4. ↑ Smith, David AS; Owen, Denis F; Gordon, Ian J; Owiny, Agoroachai M (September 1993). "Heredity - Abstract of article: Polymorphism and evolution in the butterfly Danaus chrysippus (L.) (Lepidoptera: Danainae)". Heredity. 71 (3): 242–251. doi: 10.1038/hdy.1993.132 . ISSN   0018-067X.
  5. ↑ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf


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